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NCH and Nicklaus Children’s an integrated model of care and programmatic framework
The Van Domelen Institute for Women and Children is
Announce that unifies services for women and children across Southwest
Florida. The Institute integrates outpatient services, including
Major Plans to Expand maternal-fetal medicine, prenatal and postpartum care, pelvic
floor therapy, menopause management, and pediatric subspecialty
Care for Women and Children care. Extending care beyond hospital walls, the Institute will also
address prevention, education, and chronic disease management
across the lifespan through a coordinated, comprehensive
by Paul Hiltz,
Naples Comprehensive Health President & CEO approach.
The Van Domelen Pavilion for Women and Children will be
ince opening our doors in 1956 and a four-story, 156,000-square-foot center of clinical excellence
welcoming our first baby just two built above the existing emergency departments at NCH North
Sdays later, NCH has grown alongside Hospital. It will feature modern labor and delivery suites, advanced
Southwest Florida, evolving with our operating rooms, enhanced maternal-fetal medicine, advanced
community and caring for generations women’s health services, and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care
of families. Today, as our region has Unit to keep high-risk pregnancies and critically ill newborns close
experienced unprecedented growth and to home. A rooftop helipad will support rapid transport and timely
increasing complexity in healthcare needs, access to lifesaving care. The Pavilion represents an over $350
we are launching a bold initiative because families deserve the million investment in our community, with NCH and Nicklaus
very best care close to home. Children’s partnering to raise 80 percent through philanthropy to
Naples Comprehensive Health (NCH) and Nicklaus break ground.
Children’s Hospital recently announced a major expansion The initiative will also strengthen relationships with
of care for women and children in Southwest Florida, made organizations that NCH has collaborated with, and Bill and Julia
possible by a visionary gift from the Bill and Julia Van Domelen Van Domelen Foundation supports, such as Healthcare Network,
Foundation. This extraordinary investment will establish the David Lawrence Centers, Neighborhood Health Clinic, Baker
Van Domelen Institute for Women and Children and support Senior Center and others that provide wraparound services for
construction of the Van Domelen Pavilion for Women and children, women, and families. By connecting hospital care with
Children on the NCH North Hospital campus. preventive, behavioral health, and social support resources, this
Collier County is home to more than 65,000 children, with project creates a collaborative, sustainable model powered by
the pediatric population projected to grow another four percent philanthropy.
in the next five years. NCH delivers nearly 3,700 babies each Made possible by the extraordinary vision and generosity of
year and operates the only pediatric emergency department in the Bill and Julia Van Domelen Foundation, and strengthened
the county. With this expansion, women and children will benefit through partnership with Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and trusted
from shorter wait times, reduced travel, and truly coordinated community organizations, this effort reflects what can happen
care between hospital teams, specialists, and community when a community comes together around a shared purpose.
providers, ensuring families can stay close to home when it As a nonprofit health system, NCH relies on the generosity
matters most. and philanthropic support of local residents to expand facilities,
The Van Domelen gift will be used to fund two parts of implement advanced technologies, and deliver the highest level
this major project: The Van Domelen Institute for Women of care. Bill and Julia Van Domelen Foundation’s extraordinary
and Children - the new name of the program for women and gift represents a defining moment in this effort, and community
children already in existence, and The Van Domelen Pavilion support will be essential to fully realize this vision for women and
for Women and Children - the planned tower which will be the children in Southwest Florida.
program’s eventual hub. For more information or to learn how to support the Van Domelen
Pavilion for Women & Children and learn more about the Van
Domelen Institute for Women & Children,
visit nchmd.org/WomenandChildren.
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